Gameology 2.0

Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information: Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content

The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information repository where access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform for collaboration in which content is generated and shared among users. Also popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications include blogs, wikis, social networking, media sharing and social tagging, among many others. As this new avenue for content-generation becomes increasingly popular, the resulting information explosion requires new techniques and applications to manage, search and access such content.

The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) aims to explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various technologies underlying user-generated content to provide innovative and useful services for their users. Since such technologies are potentially disruptive, the special issue will also investigate how support for user-generated content would impact digital libraries, their administrators, users and other stakeholders.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Use of Web 2.0 technologies in digital libraries
• Mobile services in digital libraries
• Supporting digital library infrastructure and architecture
• Information retrieval and mining techniques
• Virtual worlds and digital libraries
• User communities
• Usability and user needs
• Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content
• Social, institutional and policy issues

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
Review decisions to authors: 26 May 2008
Submission of final version: 21 July 2008
Publication: Before year end 2008

ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION

Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dr. Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Submission of papers will be done electronically. In the keywords field of the submission system, please indicate that the paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content. Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions may be found here. More information about JoDI is here. Please also visit this page for updates on this special issue.